5- The Card Reader; 6- Portable Functioning - Ingenico ELITE 770 User Manual

5- The Card Reader
0 Magnetic Stripe Card
The card can be read either swiped from right to left, or from left to right. The magnetic
track on the card turned on the rear side of the terminal and the card should be swiped
through the
0 Micro Chip Card
Introduce the card horizontally into the apparatus, the micro-chip facing up, as indicated
and leave the card in position for the length of time that it takes to process the
transaction.
6- Portable Functioning
The ELITE 770 terminal is portable ; it includes batteries which permit to make 150
transactions without connection to the base.
A star on the upper right side of the display indicates a correct connection between the
terminal and its base.
A battery low is indicated by a message « -BAT- » on the display following by a beep.
The terminal continues to run during about 40 transactions, but batteries need to be
reloaded during at least 14 hours.
In a portable mode, the ELITE 770 terminal enters in a wait state automatically after 20
seconds of inactivity or after hitting the RED key.
The message « -RANGE- » appears on the terminal display when the terminal is
out of range of the base, during a communication establishment. To work properly,
put the termina l nearer the base (about 100 meters in open air, 40 meters inside a
building depending on the environment).
The message « -BUSY- » appears during a connection with the base when an
other terminal is already in communication with this base. The operator must wait
the end of the communication between the base and the other terminal.
The message « -FULL- » appears when the terminal wants to connect a base
which already has the right number of terminal. In this case, switch off the base
during a few seconds, and launch a profile on each terminal (System menu-
track reader
Version May 1999
freely and without hesitation.
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